Medicine: Foundation Fight

U.S. medicine last week witnessed the strange spectacle of two large,
well-meaning foundations fighting over which one has the franchise to
help the sick in a large and serious disease field. After 20 years of
vigorous life, during which it raised $560 million (virtually all from
the March of Dimes), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
announced last week a change of name and a raising of its sights
against far commoner ills than polio. Henceforth to be called simply
the National Foundation, the aggressive organization that spent $34
million on the research that produced (among other gains) the Salk
vaccine...